Introduction

TRAD Arabic-French Parallel Text -- Newsgroup was developed by ELDA as part of the PEA-TRAD project. It contains French translations of a subset of approximately 10,000 Arabic words from GALE Phase 1 Arabic Newsgroup Parallel Text - Part 1 (LDC2009T03).

The PEA-TRAD project (Translation as a Support for Document Analysis) was supported by the French Ministry of Defense (DGA). Its purpose was to develop speech-to-speech translation technology for multiple languages (e.g., Arabic, Chinese, Pashto) from a variety of domains. ELDA developed several corpora for this effort.

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has also released the following TRAD corpora:

Data

This release consists of 398 segments (translation units) from 17 documents. The source data is Arabic newsgroup text collected and translated into English by the Linguistic Data Consortium for the DARPA GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program. Information about the ELDA translation team, translation guidelines and validation results is contained in the documentation accompanying this release.

The Arabic source file contains 10,706 words and the French reference translation contains 15,843 words. The data is presented in two unicode-encoded XML files along with an associated DTD.